Principle Architect - Workday ERP

For roles that are 100% remote or hybrid, you must have access to a reliable high-speed internet connection to support daily job responsibilities. A minimum bandwidth of 50 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload is required. Those fully remote associates residing in states where service is required by contract, law, or regulation will be allowed to submit for reimbursement.

** Role Overview*
* The  
** Principle Architect
** will provide technical and solution architecture leadership across enterprise business platforms, initially focusing on the organization's transformation from People Soft to Workday. This role will help define the future-state application architecture, guide integration and data migration decisions, evaluate existing customizations, and ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with business objectives.

Beyond the ERP transformation, the Principle Architect will provide cross-functional architectural leadership for internally developed and enterprise applications supporting HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and other corporate functions. The architect will establish reusable application patterns, reduce technical debt, improve integration consistency, and help modernize the organization's homegrown application portfolio.

This is a hands-on architecture role that requires the ability to operate strategically while remaining actively engaged in solution design, technical reviews, troubleshooting, and delivery. The  
** Principal Architect
** will provide hands-on architecture leadership for the organization's  
** People Soft-to-Workday transformation** , while establishing the long-term architecture strategy for enterprise and internally developed applications.

** Work Arrangement*
* + This is a 100% Remote position but you must live in EST or CST time zones

** Responsibilities*
* + Define architecture direction for enterprise capabilities, major domains, and strategic platforms, shaping the target-state architecture and long-range technology roadmap

+ Translate enterprise strategy, business priorities, and regulatory demands into architecture principles, roadmaps, and cross-domain design decisions that guide multiple portfolios

+ Establish and evolve enterprise architecture patterns, reference models, and decision frameworks across application, data, integration, platform, and security domains

+ Lead enterprise-wide alignment across business, product, engineering, infrastructure, data, and security leaders to drive coherent architecture decisions across organizational boundaries

+ Set the architectural quality bar for major initiatives and govern high-impact design decisions, exceptions, and technical risks across portfolios

+ Architect enterprise-scale solutions and capability models that optimize interoperability, reuse, resiliency, and strategic flexibility across the technology landscape

+ Own enterprise architecture artifacts for major domains and cross-domain capabilities, including target-state models, transition states, standards mappings, and dependency views

+ Chair or heavily influence architecture governance for strategic initiatives, shaping standards, approving exceptions, and guiding investment decisions

+ Lead the resolution of systemic architectural issues and technical-debt patterns that affect multiple domains, establishing structural improvements that strengthen enterprise reliability

+ Provide architecture leadership during significant enterprise events, transformations, and platform shifts, guiding response strategies and long-term corrective actions

+ Evaluate and recommend enterprise technology investments by balancing business value, strategic fit, cost, risk, and total cost of ownership across the portfolio

+ Defines enterprise…